[liberationtech] About Telegram

[Tony Arcieri]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Maxim Kammerer <mk at dee.su> wrote:


> Where else would a bunch of butthurt self-proclaimed "experts" attack a
> developer and a product
> for voluntarily offering a contest for breaking a protocol? With an
> obvious conflict of interest, no less. Moreover, the "brilliant"
> attack consists of trivial and obvious accusations that the contest
> cannot cover certain types of weaknesses


Moxie's point was that a cryptosystem can be obviously broken in multiple
different ways and its creator might still not lose such a contest (though
Telegram did).

The Telegram "contest" was much more a PR stunt then a serious attempt at a
sort of "bug bounty" for the system's design and implementation

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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